This is the first, only and last time I will address stuff like this on forums, especially on ones like these. I choose to not engage because frankly I don't care, it's not my job and I'm not being asked for my opinion on the matter because no one cares what a rando like me on internet thinks.
I'm answering this because you latched on to only one word and interpreted as something, and derailed on a completely different off topic theme. I won't say what I think about that because no one cares and no one asked my opinion.
What you think of feel after this, not my problem. Nor will I engage further.
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Outlier:
A person or thing differing from all other members of a particular group or set.
In statistics, an outlier is a data point that differs significantly from other observations. An outlier may be due to variability in the measurement or it may indicate experimental error; the latter are sometimes excluded from the data set
Now I'll use asexuality as an umbrella term, because that's the only one that seems to have at least some traceable research to it.
For whatever reason behind it, be it psychological, neurological, psychical. The numbers are small enough that you can be considered an outlier of the general population. It heavily depends on what you're trying to research of course.
Let's say, you're trying to find out how to make an ad that tries to sell through sexual attraction. Where would you fit here?
I called you outliers because your numbers are small and your characteristics oppose a general population sample. Not because you're abnormal (also an outputting term for some because of a negative connotation) or sick.
Which I feel this was the implication. That you felt that I called you sick.
You know more than me, but what I could quickly gather it's a condition that's not well studied, it has many issues with what to study. It's a subject that emotionally charges a lot of people even in research. If the researcher can't look past its moral values it taints any relevant results they could have.
This is the first, only and last time I will address issues like these. I will not engage further.
I tried to keep my own biases in values in check as much as I could but no doubt they overflowed here and there and for that I apologize.
I will forward the question "are asexuals, outliers?" to my friend PHD. in Sociology to get his opinion and also to his girlfriend who works in statistics and add an edit if I fucked up what I said.
EDIT: I was asked by friend to mention that my comment also implies that you are part of the general population.
I honestly thought the communism part would get the most reactions.
